IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency International Nuclear Information System (INIS) 2.3 Digital Preservation Activities 36 th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers 4-5 October 2012, Vienna, Austria Germain St-Pierre Digital Preservation Technician

IAEA 4-5 October 2012, Vienna, Austria 36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers Our Main Tasks 1. Process new incoming NCL 2. Digitization of INIS Microfiche Collection 3. Digitization of out of print IAEA Publications

IAEA 4-5 October 2012, Vienna, Austria 36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers 1. NCL Processing in ,512 new NCL available from INIS (Vol. 43/01 to 43/39) From 48 countries or organizations Full-Texts contained in 7,678 PDF files Input mostly in PDF => Quality Control (QC) NCL input in hard copy => Full Digitization (Digitization = Scanning + Image Enhancement + OCR + PDF output + QC)

IAEA 4-5 October 2012, Vienna, Austria 36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers 2. Microfiche Digitization Project Started in 2003 Digitize the INIS microfiche collection Improve on-line access to full-texts Ensure long-term preservation of the digital collection Done in close collaboration with INIS Member States to prevent duplication of digitization efforts

IAEA 4-5 October 2012, Vienna, Austria 36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers Microfiche Collection INIS Volume 1 to 27 ( ) All NCL distributed on microfiche Whole collection: 312,000 NCL reports Over 1,000,000 physical microfiches 500,000 NCL bibliographic records Estimated 17 million pages

IAEA 4-5 October 2012, Vienna, Austria 36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers MF Digitization Project – 2012 only Jan – July 2012 (Progress and Activity Report) : 20,434 PDF files added from digitized microfiches Over 843,000 pages of full-texts August – September 2012: 4,250 more PDF files added from digitized microfiches Over 266,000 pages of full-texts

IAEA 4-5 October 2012, Vienna, Austria 36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers MF Digitization Project – Status Since 2003: 279,427 PDF files from digitized microfiches Over 13,7 million pages of full- texts 340 GB of data 81% of the MF collection has been digitized (Status )

IAEA 4-5 October 2012, Vienna, Austria 36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers Microfiche Digitization Statistics YearFull-Texts from MFDigitized PagesSize in GB Before *) Total: *) Status

IAEA 4-5 October 2012, Vienna, Austria 36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers Cumulative Full-Texts from Microfiche *) Status

IAEA 4-5 October 2012, Vienna, Austria 36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers Digitized Pages from Microfiche *) Status

IAEA Our Tools Scanning and Image Enhancement PixEdit 7 OCR ABBYY FineReader 11 NCL Collection Management System Developed by SDSG Very useful Reporting Tool Over 466,000 full-texts 4-5 October 2012, Vienna, Austria 36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers

IAEA 4-5 October 2012, Vienna, Austria 36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers 3. Other Digitization Projects Completed projects: IAEA Bulletin IAEA General Conference INDC IAEA Technical Reports Series (TRS) On-going projects: Out of Print IAEA Publications Proceedings Series Safety Series (IAEA/NS) Photo Archival Project

IAEA 4-5 October 2012, Vienna, Austria 36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers What comes next? Maintain and add value to the existing Digital Collection by: Reprocessing (OCR) scanned images Splitting PDF files to create 1 PDF file for each analytic record

IAEA 4-5 October 2012, Vienna, Austria 36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers For More Information For more details on the history of our activity and our technical infrastructure over the years, see: Newsletter No. 13 September 2012 (available from INIS Members Area on the Web)

IAEA 4-5 October 2012, Vienna, Austria 36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers Thank you!